NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday refused to consider a plea for investigation into the murder of advocate and state BJP leader Tikalal Taploo in Kashmir in 1989 allegedly by JKLF militants.
A bench of Justices B R Gavai and C T Ravikumar pointed out it had declined to entertain another similar matter recently.
"We cannot discriminate when we have not taken up another petition," the bench said, allowing the petitioner Ashutosh, son of the deceased, to avail alternate remedy.
In his arguments, senior advocate Gaurav Bhatia, representing Taploo, sought to make a distinction between the instant matter and the previous one.
He said, 32 years have passed and there was not even a whisper of investigation. My fundamental right was violated. I was asked to leave Kashmir after the death," the counsel said, referring to the SIT formed in 1984 anti-Sikh riots case after about three decades.
The bench, however, said the matter can be pursued in the High Court. After this, the counsel sought to withdraw the plea, which was allowed by the court.
Earlier on September 2, the Supreme Court had declined to entertain a plea by NGO 'We the Citizens' for an SIT probe into the targeted killings of Kashmiri Pandits in Kashmir in 1990s.
